Introduction / Summary (2018): Hello and welcome to our
Sexuality pages. While this is not a pornographic site, it is provocative - founded upon
what people search on the Internet (which is very interesting!). We then
relate this to our biological and cultural evolution.
Sex is obviously important to people - and if you want to improve your sexual
relationships then knowing the truth about our human evolution is the best
foundation. By opening our minds to a greater diversity of behaviors, this
knowledge will help you creatively cultivate healthy pleasurable moral
attitudes and sexy smutty relationships (free from religious
guilt & cultural myths).
Support an open honest discussion on the truth of our sexual evolution and behaviour. If you support sex positive,
moral, informed sexual behaviour please share this knowledge. (These pages
have a diverse collection of fascinating information relating to our human
sexual evolution so people will appreciate it - see our 'nice letters' page!).
Sincerely, Karene.

"It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce." (Voltaire) - "Desire is the essence of a man." (Spinoza)

"Lolita, light of my life, fire of my
loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta; the tip of my tongue taking a trip of
three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta.
She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four foot ten in one sock.
She was Lola in slacks. She was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the
dotted line. But in my arms she was always Lolita." (Vladimir Nabokov,
Lolita, 1955)

Summary

Lolita is a colloquial term for an attractive or sexually precocious young
girl.

The phrase comes from the infamous book Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov,
1955. Humbert Humbert, the protagonist of the book falls in love and becomes
sexually obsessed with a 12 year old girl. Although the subject may be controversial,
Nabokov's book is held in high literary regard for its innovative style
and astute comments on American culture. Rather than promoting pedophilia,
it dramatically shows the tragedy of Humbert's obsession. The book has subsequently
has been made into two films, by Stanley Kubrick (1962) and Adrian Lyne
(1997).

'Lolita' is a very popular search on the Internet. It ranks in the top
40 sex related searches, higher than preteen
(40,000) or child
pornography (3,000).

The popularity is perhaps due to it being a 'safer' search than other phrases
such as 'kiddie porn'. The results show that many people (men) find young
women and girls sexually attractive. This suggests that our evolutionary
instincts for beauty (which are based upon youth and health) are at odds
with our cultural laws. In most countries in the world, it is illegal to
have sexual relations with anyone under the age
of consent (usually 16). To do so is considered abusive.

While we respect the cultural laws on consent and the protection of children,
we also feel it is important to understand the truth of our evolved instincts
(as a way of understanding our behaviour and problems society faces). This
does not legitimise our instincts, but allows us to understand why and guide
our behaviour morally in the future. For humans have also evolved a moral
instinct - which the two main principles are do unto others and informed
consent.

Vladimir Nabokov's book, Lolita shows that older people can fall
in love and be sexually attracted to young teenagers / children. There is
obviously a difference between a loving, mutually beneficial relationship
and forced coercion (abuse). This however is a controversial view as it
is commonly held that children cannot give consent and such a relationship
betrays trust. Some people, such as Dr. Fred S. Berlin see that pedophilia
is a sexual orientation (the constant sexual preference of children) which
differs from sexual abuse.

For more information on these ideas, see our related pages at the bottom
of this page. I hope you find the following articles interesting.

Sincerely,
Karene

Definitions of Pedophilia

Pedophilia, is the paraphilia of being sexually attracted primarily or
exclusively to prepubescent or peripubescent children. A person with this
attraction is called a pedophile or paedophile. The term pedophile is also
used colloquially to denote significantly older adults who are sexually
attracted to adolescents below the local age of consent, as well as those
who have sexually abused a child.

The Vienna psychiatrist Richard von Krafft-Ebing in 1886, gave pedophilia
the following characteristics:
* the sexual interest is toward children, either prepubescent or at the
beginning of puberty
* sexual interest of children is the exclusive or primary one
* the sexual interest remains over time

Use of the term pedophile to describe all child sexual offenders is seen
as problematic by some people, especially when viewed from a medical standpoint,
as the majority of sex crimes against children are perpetrated by situational
offenders rather than people sexually preferring prepubertal children.'

Bill Henson: Artistic Nudes or Child Pornography?

The following article (including comments from readers) addresses very
important problems faced by society. Is a nude body always sexual? What
is art or pornography? Is the work depicting the beauty of children or exploitation?
What are the rights of artists to show their work? The law of censorship?

From the website: 'Australian artist Bill Henson's portraits of children
have been seized by police. The matter is currently under investigation,
and police have indicated that child pornography charges may be bought against
either the artist or the gallery, over images of a 13-year-old girl in a
"sexual context".

Child Exploitation & the Internet: Too Broad a Ban on Child Models?

A new bill in U.S. Congress designed to outlaw child sex websites would
instead ban nearly all commercial photography of minors. Republican Mark
Foley announced the proposal would ban websites featuring controversial
images of nude preteen children.

Photography of Children on the Internet

Jeff Pierson is a photographer who until recently, ran a business called
Beautiful Super Models for portraits of aspiring models under 18.

The U.S. Department of Justice accuses Pierson, 43, of being a child pornographer
- even though there's no evidence he has ever taken a single photograph
of an unclothed minor. Rather, his models struck poses that were illegally
provocative.

Pierson's child pornography indictment arises out of an FBI and U.S. Postal
Inspection Service investigation of so-called child modeling sites, which
have been the subject of a series of critical congressional hearings and
news reports in the last few years.

Analyse
any human emotion, no matter how far it may be removed from the sphere of
sex, and you are sure to discover somewhere the primal impulse, to which
life owes its perpetuation. ... The primitive stages can always be re-established;
the primitive mind is, in the fullest meaning of the word, imperishable.
... Mans most disagreeable habits and idiosyncrasies, his deceit, his cowardice,
his lack of reverence, are engendered by his incomplete adjustment to a
complicated civilisation. It is the result of the conflict between our instincts
and our culture. (Sigmund Freud)

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